Bearwood Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 How do does one go about stitching multiple photos together to make a panorama? I see Serif have a "Panorama Plus", will this be integrated into Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 12, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hi Bearwood, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently there's no way to do it. There's a request for this to be implemented here. Affinity applications don't share any code with Serif line of products for Windows. So no, it will not be integrated in Photo. Bearwood 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Hi, Regarding stitching panoramas, one of the best was written by two graduate students at the University of British Columbia: They called it "Autostitch" because it really is Point a block of photographs to it and it will sort them out, combine and create the panorama both horizontal and vertical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoStitch You can download a free demo copy for either/both OSX and MS Windows. They do not sell the program as the University is not a business, but you could license the code to include in Affinity Photo from the university. http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html#licensing Why not take a look at it. You can download the free demo version here: http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html Sparks anon1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Its just a guess but I think they found a solution them self because they will bring auto alignment to AP and I think the algorithm might be similar?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu schwendener Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Panorama stitching is included in the latest Beta version https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14656-affinity-photo-customer-beta-1357 Quote manuschwendener.ch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_mac Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I do like to stitch panoramas together in LR as now it is possible to use RAW images. I do not know how to do this is AP. When I have tried to open images in the dialogue box that opens all RAW files are grayed out as well as any file that in stored in AP format (developed or not). I have noticed that tiff's can be opened. So please would someone please do a tutorial or provide some support for this as well as the stacking option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu schwendener Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 > So please would someone please do a tutorial Posting a tutorial about a function only available in Beta turned out to be confusing for a LOT of people - although it was clearly marked as 'Beta only' (haze removal). Quote manuschwendener.ch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 8, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hi p-mac, As far as i know it's not possible to stitch RAW images in Affinity Photo at this point. Only "generic" image formats. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_mac Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thanks MEB for your reply. Hopefully it will be possible soon. I guess I will need to stick with LR for the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_mac Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 I did a little search as I know that Kolor uses the AutoStitch engine developed at UBC. I also see that Serif has a licence for this software but its for Windows only. Their Q&A was very informative with respect to RAW image stitching. It gives some insight into why LR is able to develop panos with raw data. I have tried to stitch a pano manually in AP with RAW images and find that there is a definite difference in the shots. I tried with the development default turned on and then turned off as shown in your latest tutorials and then develop without any other changes. It then becomes a really difficult task to makes sure that every part melds together. 'Can I stitch RAW images?Yes, but it's not "recommended".Autopano is stiching software, not RAW decoding software, so Autopano will only decode the RAW files with the very default values, defeating the whole purpose of RAW shooting. It is best to treat your RAWs in dedicated software beforehand. Prefer shooting in JPG or TIFF if you do not want to treat the RAW photos. Autopano is able to decode the RAW format. However, the different RAW formats evolve over time, depending on brands and camera models. Therefore, it is possible that Autopano can't decode some RAW files, simply because the database is not updated. This usually happens when a new camera model is released, containing a new coding of its RAW format and which is not included in Autopano. The solution for that is to decode this new RAW format in .tiff 16 bits format, which is the equivalent of what Autopano does during the decoding. We update our decoding database following this evolution, but it takes some time, so there is a delay between the release of a camera and the update of a new version of Autopano that support this new encoding format.' http://www.kolor.com/wiki-en/action/view/Autopano_-_FAQ?action=view&title=Autopano_-_FAQ#Can_I_stitch_RAW_images.3F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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